In this picture is me and my cat Bootsie. We inherited her from a family friend and she bonded with me at first sight. If you’re wondering what she’s looking at, she saw a bird outside my window next to the bed (yay spring!). The assignment seemed pretty straightforward, so I just had to pick which pet to take a selfie with. In my house, I have 2 cats, Kiara and Bootsie and 1 dog, Phoenix, so I had a few options to choose from. I would have been fine with a picture with any of them, but I decided to go with a picture of Bootsie since that one had decent quality (read: not blurry) and was also cute. I decided to use my phone camera because it took decent quality pictures and would always be available for me to use when taking a selfie for this assignment. I decided to start taking the photos while my pets were awake and around me since I thought the photo would look cuter if they were awake. I took many photos during one particular day and had to filter out the ones that were blurry from movement. The main challenge I had during this assignment was from the animals themselves. If you’ve ever owned a pet before, you know that they will move however they want whenever they want. This sadly left me with a large chunk of photos out of the running for being on this post. Although, I’m very happy with the end result.

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